Otra Liga es posible

An Iberian proposal would slash wage costs, free up time and talent for cashflow-friendly shagshow opportunities, and assimilate football to mainstream Peninsular cultural practice.

Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell

Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.

2 comments, including jeronimo: Gello people @ FTB.com thanks for the great walks always interesting and fun. nice pics of the storm

Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless

Restores the power of speech to stricken Andalusians.

Administrative note

I’m going to shift all the crap on this server to a new host tomorrow evening–cheaper, I believe more reliable, and it’s in the States so I can say whatever I want. One query: I have vague memories from when I left the disastrous WebFusion/Host Europe setup a couple of years ago that WordPress times-out [...]

How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited

Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.

2 comments, including Trevor: My spiritual leader reminds me that any cultural policy is anti-freedom. Yes, but. Meanwhile, maybe

Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview

Here’s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well [...]

3 comments, including A Nun: Nah, there'll always be work for traveling gigolos.
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Cover of "The World" magazine of Jan. 18, 1914 featuring Francis Grierson as "Psychic Pianist". Public Domain over at Wikimedia Commons

Accompanying the big A

In which I proffer my experience in the service of the East European mafia as a model for helping us help the Aricept generation.

Why less democracy is better for Europe

Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

The Two Gardeners

An anti-intellectual French horticultural fable.

Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore

Yet another scheme to get poor slowly.

Bloody Galicians

But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?

1 comment, including santcugat: Alberto Núñez Feijóo says he may or may not have been offended. Typical.

Commental asylum

Das Scroll und Scream Kitschin' Kabinett des Dr Kalebeul

More stuff

Incoming

  • Back when referrer spam from eg crossroadstransportation.net is fixed

Shorts

Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden

This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky.

Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!

From this month’s Barcelona Connect:

Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!
Probably the biggest jug of cocktail in the city, and certainly not one to be tackled without a good group of friends! Pippermint offers a delicious variety of cocktails, plus student night on Thursdays, and you can catch the big sports matches here on large screen TV. C/ Borí y Fontestá 20.
www.pippermintbcn.com

Before the anti-binge drinking law it was 20 litres, of course.

2 comments, including Tom: First the guided walks, now this. Kalebeul seems to serve for little more than a gallery of your vic

My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest país tenim un costum molt curiós. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastíssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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